I would love to see pics of that system.
4 Hard drives each with coolers. 3 of the coolers are dual fan, 1 is triple fanned. Thats 9 fans on just the hard drives.
2 120 mm on the front of the case pulling in.
2 80 mm on the back of the case pushing out.
1 80 mm on the side of the case pulling in.
1 80 mm on the top of the case pushing out.
2 (1 160mm on the bottom, 1 80 mm on the front)on the 480 watt power supply pushing out.
1 on the CPU
1 on the MB Chipset
1 on the video card.
System is a custom built with custom designed case running a 2.8 Northwood overclocked to 3.6 with 2 gig dual channel DDR ram running at 800 mhz.
System runs at a cool 34 degrees C, CPU at 36 degrees C under heavy load.
One would think that all these fans would be very loud, but using very quiet fans (more expensive) keeps the noise very low.

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